So Did You Die of History

September 11, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is terrorism in memory of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Today’s poem is a poem for the victims of terrorism on 9/11.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

So did you die of history,

Each innocent of dogma dead,

Purloined to play in some fool's head

The drama of his destiny.

Even in your hapless herds,

Miracles to men unmoved,

Being loved as you were loved,

Even thus, you were but words.

Reason seeks what reason knows.

Each alone must bridge the gulf,

Loving all as if oneself,

Else blood with reason endless flows.

Vanquished, you must still live on,

Each murdered soul a monument,

Nor what you mean be what you meant,

The private to the public gone,

Held long as letters carved in stone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/sodidy.html. For more poems about terrorism and 911, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/terrorism911poems.html .

This week’s theme: Terrorism

September 11: So Did You Die of History